Senior National MP Judith Collins is standing by a tweet linking to a an article that made false claims about France’sage of consent laws.

France had already made sex with any children younger than 15 an offence, but it did not automatically classify all such sex as rape – neither does New Zealand.

The new law makes it far easier for prosecutors to do so by introducing a new offence of “abuse of vulnerability”. Critics have argued that the new law does not go far enough, but not that the law goes backward.

Collins responded to those on Twitter who asked why she was tweeting out fake news by tweeting to reputable news sources covering the same topic, but in a deeply different way.

She told Stuff she didn’t necessarily “agree” with every article she tweeted but wanted to draw attention to the issue.

“I’m just concerned about the story about France itself,” Collins said.

Collins said she didn’t buy into “conspiracies” about liberals pushing paedophilia worldwide, despite sharing the article which suggested liberals were doing just that in its first paragraph.

it's worth noting that conspiracy, which Collins said she knew nothing about, is becoming more and more widespread in the states. it seeks to smear LGBT activists by claiming they want to add a "P" to "LGBT" to encourage acceptance of paedophilia https://t.co/lORuvFpSKQ

Gezza

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Gezza

Well, hardly. I’ve got tools & equipment & done DIY jobs on things which have gone wrong which have ended up getting that label. But generally not within earshot of others because its such an offensive term. When its applied to men or women in a derogatory sense its got a deeply sexually offensive meaning and only really obnoxious people use it that way.

Gezza

As you well know, I was illustrating the point that you claimed such terms are not offensive when frequently used because people become desentised to them – but the context in which they are used is very significant to whether they are offensive. But I’ll leave it here because you’ve adequately made my point & anything else you hsve to say on the matter will only be you trying to be even more obnoxious. It’s just how you are.

It is offensive when it’s used of a person and not the part of the anatomy. If it’s used of a woman, it reduces her to that part of her, if it’s used of a man, it’s as bad in a different way. It also insults the body part to use it as a derogatory term.

I read a James Bond book in which the villains kept referring to a woman as a ‘slot’. This was offensive out of all proportion, somehow, because it seemed so derogatory. It was almost worse than cunt, it was so contemptuous.

Blazer

Collins is a sideshow…interesting infight..Bennett had Adams,Kaye,Barry and co on board..how loyal will they be.
The ex mercenary Mitchell,and good ole baccy Bishop have raised their profiles recently.

I’m expecting the National strategists to come from left field with a fresh ,trepackaged candidate next year.

Blazer

‘People will do anything for money. Even go to war. Mercenaries have been fighting in wars for all of recorded history. They do the military’s dirty work and are paid a huge paycheck for doing it. Mercenaries do more than you think. Today they are called security contractors…

Gezza

They were Cheneys’ & Rumsfelds’ way of corporatising the illegal invasion of Iraq which among other things meant fewer US soldiers coming home in bodybags. Aljazeera rescreened a documentary on the big firms involved in this work. They were busted now hiring former child soldiers from Africa because they were the cheapest. These are young men who have hacked off hands and arms under the direction of the rebel commander who captured them. Most of these young men are seriously screwed up still. There was also some footage of the white security contractors, Brits &Yanks, abusing the locals because they could – they had all the firepower. They posted their own footage. They weren’t subject to even such little military discipline as US soldiers were.